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‘Salt Satyagraha’ captures a moment in Indian colonial history when the British ruled over the Indian subcontinent from 1858 until its independence  in 1947.
Mahatma Gandhi was an activist who helped lead India's independence movement in the early 1900s. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr drew heavily on the Gandhian idea of nonviolence in his own activism. Gandhi referred to his form of nonviolence as ‘satyagraha’ which means ‘pursuit of truth through nonviolent action’. The 1882 Salt Law passed by the British prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, and gave the British a monopoly on the salt trade. Gandhi led the Salt March in 1930, as an act of civil disobedience to protest against British rule in India. During the march, thousands of Indians followed Gandhi to the Arabian Sea coast. This moment in history witnessed enormous numbers of women from various backgrounds -- participating in active roles at every level of resistance for the first time in the independence movement.  The production was commissioned by Glastonbury community MLK - Initiative and premiered on MLK ‘s birthday.

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